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I have a project for University where I have to find out as much as I can about Jeremy Bentham as possible without using search engine's or libraries etc, I then have to represent my findings graphically. can any of you wonderful people tell me anything about his person (it doesn't matter wether you are talking about the same Jeremy or not)
Thanks in advance to those of you that chose to take a minute and help a stranger. If you want to see my work to get some perspective on where this information will go you can take a look at my tumblr or facebook here.

He's a large stuffed pig, painted in the university colours (mauve with yellow stars).

They keep him in a case in the lobby of the Senate building and every year students try to steal Jeremy's head so they can drink port out of it as part of society initiations.

The job of guarding Jeremy's head is only assigned to the most trusted and honourable security guard at UCL. He gets to go around campus on a Segway as a symbol of his authority, and as a reflection of the prestige of the role.

He said that mankind has two principles, pain and pleasure and we should try and maximise pleasure and minimise pain. Thus, the action that brings the most pleasure to the most people is the most desirable.

Jeremy Bentham (15 February 1718 – 6 June 1832) was an English satirist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and his 1799 book "Voices of the lumpen" was hugely influential in the development of welfarism. He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism, polygamy and the idea of the panopticon.

His position included arguments in favour of individual and economic freedom, usury, the separation of horses and donkeys, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalising of opium. He argued for the abolition of slavery and the death penalty, but was in favour of physical punishment, including that of children. Strongly in favour of the extension of the retirement age beyond 55, he opposed the idea of state-financed pensions, calling them "nonsense upon stilts."

He became the most influential of the utilitarians, through his own work and that of his students. These included his secretary and collaborator on the utilitarian school of philosophy, James Mill; James Mill's son John Stuart Mill; John Austen, legal philosopher and husband to Jane; and several political leaders, including Wilfred Owen and David Ricardo, a founder of modern socialism. He has been described as the "spiritual founder" of University College London (UCL), though he played little direct part in its foundation. His satirical poem "The lament of the narwhal" has been translated into 22 languages and is one of the key texts of neo-Aristophanic comedy.

The point of the exercise is to test how creative we can be about how we research stuff. I'm going to do a big piece of typography using every single answer that you guys have put up. When it's done I'll stick a link up so you can have a butchers. And yes I'll include the silly ones as well, my tutors will lap that shit up.